HTC Desire 601 seems to be the other sister of HTC Desire 600 but with only single-SIM support. The Desire 601 was previously known as HTC Zara. This smartphone uses qHD 4.5-inch display screen size. The qHD means that the 4.5″ display has 540 x 960 pixels resolution that makes the device acquires 245 ppi for its pixel density. The display uses TFT capacitive touchscreen with 16M colors depth.

HTC Desire 601 Black and White Casing Color

Android Jelly Bean version 4.2.2 is chosen as the Operating runs on the HTC Desire 601 along with HTC Sense UI 5.0. There is also a HTC BlinkFeed installed on the Desire 601. For the sound enhancement, the devices is equipped with dual forntal stereo with built-in amplifiers along with HTC BoomSound technology. With the BlinkFeed you can access the information, news and even social network statuses / posts directly from your Desire 601 Home screen.

The Manual of HTC Desire 601 has both Quick Start Guide (QSG) and User Manual (User Guide). For the QSG content, it only shows for the basic tutorial on what the things you should do before you able to use the HTC Desire 601: Insert battery, micro SIM and microSD for the first time (see on PDF Download section for image-tutorial about these). If you had familiar with any of HTC Devices run on Android with HTC Sense UI, you better read this QSG instead of the Full User Manual.

HTC Desire 601 User Manual Keys Parts Layout and USB Charging Battery

But if you rather love to read the details explanation on how to use the HTC Desire 601, the User Manual of the device in PDF file format, will help you to achieve it.

By reading the Full User Manual, you’ll got more information and tutorial with deeper explanation on how to use it. From learning to get closer with the phone features, keys, and parts just like the image we embedded above, to the tutorial on how you can add contact, use the Google Play, set the alarm, make a call, or open web browser.

Special for Bluetooth tutorial, such as how you can connect the HTC Desire 601 to Bluetooth headset, pairing and unpairing to/from other bluetooth device, and how you can receive files using bluetooth, you can go to chapter “Wireless sharing” on page 160 to page 163.

If you like to know how to resolve an ordinary issue like when your HTC Desire 601 is not responding, you can go to page 115 of the Manual. In this page you’ll get the info to restart the device by pressing and holding the power button for about 10 seconds. As for Factory Reset, here the tutorial that you can follow:

On the inside, the hardware installed on Desire 601 are the dual-core 1.4GHz processor with Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 chipset and Adreno 305 as GPU, and also 1GB RAM with 8GB internal memory. There is microSD slot for external memory up to 64GB. The phone uses microSIM for the SIM type. The tutorial for inserting microSD and micro SIM can be seen on PDF Download section (image).

HTC Desire 601 Black, White, Red Casing Colors

The Desire 601 is powered by Lithium-ion battery 2100mAh capacity that can makes the device alive for almost 12 hours on talktime usage under 3G connection. It weighs 130 grams / 4.59 ounces. For the dimension size of the touch-bar device, it has 134.5 x 66.7.99 mm or about 5.3″ x 2.63″ x 0.39″ inches.

The Desire 601 seems to be designed to work under GSM technology that supports 3G and also 4G LTE. For EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa), the Desire 601 works with HSDPA 900 / 1900 / 2100 MHz for 3G, 800 / 900 / 1800 / 2600 Mhz for 4G LTE, and for Asia works under quad-band HSDPA 850/ 900 / 1900 / 2100 Mhz frequency, 900 / 1800 /2100 / 2600 MHz for 4G LTE.

The HSDPA can be used up to 42Mpbs; HSUPA up to 5.67Mbps, and 4G LTE 150Mbps DL, 50Mbps UL. There are Wi-Fi 802.11 a/b/g/n, Wi-Fi Hotspot, Wi-Fi Diret with HTC Connect, Bluetooth v4.0 with aptX enabled, microUSB v2.0 support for USB On-the-go and USB Host. and also DLNA certified.

The Desire 601 also has dual camera. Front side is embedded with only VGA camera, and rear side is attached with 5Megapixel Camera. The 5MP camera is not just an ordinary camera. It’s the 5MP camera with speciall 1.4µm pixel size and 1/4″ sensor size that will guarantee for you to get quality as good as higher ordinary camera resolution. It has LED flash, geo-tagging, face detection and smile detection, and also capable to record HD 1080p@30fps video.

For the color casing of Desire 601, you can choose one of three: Black, Silver or Red. The looks of each casing color can be seen on the figure that we embedded above.

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HTC Desire 601 User Manual & Quick Start Guide PDF Download

Just in case you need to know the basic tutorial for Inserting the micro SIM card on HTC Desire 601 and also how you can add microSD external card. We also embedded the tutorial how you can insert the battery and remove the back cover of Desire 601.